NEWS: Police Blotter, August 12, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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POLICE HAVE BUSY TIME OVER WEEK-END

Man and Twp Girls Arrested at Altamont Hotel on Disorderly Charge

  The city police force had a regular old-time business over the week-end and 
registered some sixteen arrests.  The majority were for drunkenness and also 
disorderly conduct.  They will be accorded the usual hearing in police court 
this afternoon.
  W. L. Garrett was arrested at 11:55 o'clock Saturday night at Eighth avenue 
and Ninth street by Sergeant McPherson on the charge of disorderly conduct 
and for being drunk.  The man entered the restaurant at the corner, pushed 
Mrs. C. L. McNish, captain of the Volunteers of America, rudely aside to make 
his entrance.  Sergeant McPherson learned from the woman that he had insulted 
her earlier in the evening and that she would appear against him.
  John Myers is locked up at the police station on the charge of being drunk 
and disorderly.  He was taken into custody at 1:10 o'clock yesterday morning 
at his home, 2121 Nineteenth street.  He had chased his wife and children out 
of the house, after threatening to kill them, and they were given shelter by 
a neighbor.  The police were summoned to take Myers into custody and they 
found him asleep on a chair on a rear porch with a butcher knife lying at his 
side.  He left security for a hearing.
  J. J. Fulmer and two girls, Edna Wolheater and Edith Allen, were arrested 
by Cornerman Swanger at the Altamonte hotel, at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning, 
at the request of the proprietor, E. C. Adler, on the charge of disorderly 
conduct.  They were located in a room and when the proprietor and the officer 
entered Fulmer was hidden under a bed.  The trio left security for a hearing 
today.

Altoona Tribune, Monday morning, August 12, 1918, page 10